Ondine's Curse

Lisa M. Rohlmann is a former business owner in Shelburne, Ontario.

Steven Manners, a short-story fiction writer and screenwriter, has
written and edited articles for various medical journals. Medical themes
play a prominent role in Ondine’s Curse. Set in modern-day Montreal,
the novel’s central character is Ondine, a traumatized historian who
suffers from depressed memory syndrome. A witness to the 1989 massacre
of 14 young women, Ondine is now a patient at a controversial
psychiatric clinic headed by Werther Acheson, an old German doctor whose
studies go back to Germany during the First World War. The thread that
holds the various events and time zones together is provided by
journalist Strasser, who gathers material for a short documentary about
the recently deceased Dr. Acheson and his pioneer work in the field of
human mind altering. This ambitious novel is marred by the author’s
somewhat satirical way of expression and constant shifting from one
episode to another.